The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 28F. Hunt, 1853 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 20
... hundred , I should plainly rival the most brilliant California investment , and offer to your interests a solid ... hundred dollars ' balance - perhaps for you , perhaps against you - so closely are the scales adjusted in the end . But ...
... hundred , I should plainly rival the most brilliant California investment , and offer to your interests a solid ... hundred dollars ' balance - perhaps for you , perhaps against you - so closely are the scales adjusted in the end . But ...
Page 27
... hundred persons who commenced business in Boston , ninety - five at least die poor ; that of the same number in New York , not two ultimately acquire wealth , after passing through the intermediate process of bankruptcy , while in ...
... hundred persons who commenced business in Boston , ninety - five at least die poor ; that of the same number in New York , not two ultimately acquire wealth , after passing through the intermediate process of bankruptcy , while in ...
Page 68
... Hundred Thousand , and not more than Five Hun- dred Thousand Dollars . The association then receives from the Controller an amount of notes equal to the par , or market value of the Stock . On this they may carry on all banking business ...
... Hundred Thousand , and not more than Five Hun- dred Thousand Dollars . The association then receives from the Controller an amount of notes equal to the par , or market value of the Stock . On this they may carry on all banking business ...
Page 69
... hundred dol- lars - no part accepted . 6. For the Sale of Lands and interests , except leases not over one year- no possession and no money paid . A memorandum by an auctioneer , his clerk , or agent , takes the case out of the statute ...
... hundred dol- lars - no part accepted . 6. For the Sale of Lands and interests , except leases not over one year- no possession and no money paid . A memorandum by an auctioneer , his clerk , or agent , takes the case out of the statute ...
Page 70
... hundred bushels of corn , one work horse or pair of oxen , cart , and all tools of trade , not exceeding two hundred dollars in value ; are exempt from execution or attachment , or sale by the executor or administrator . Attachments may ...
... hundred bushels of corn , one work horse or pair of oxen , cart , and all tools of trade , not exceeding two hundred dollars in value ; are exempt from execution or attachment , or sale by the executor or administrator . Attachments may ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American amount April average bales Baltimore Bank Bank of England barrels bbls bill bill of lading Boston British bushels Canal capital cargo cent charter circulation coal coinage Commerce Company consumption corn cotton Cuba Cunard debt December December 31 defendant deposits dollars duties England entered exports favor February feet flint glass flour foreign France Franklinite freight glass gold hhds hundred imports increase Insurance interest iron Island January July labor Lake land lard Liverpool loan Magazine Manufactures Massachusetts mercantile merchandise Merchants miles mines months Nashua November November 30 October Orleans Orleans Mints paid Philadelphia plaintiff port present principle produce quantity Railroad railway receipts received River Rixdollars roads ship shipments silver specie statement steamers sugar tion tonnage tons Total trade United vessels wealth whole York zinc
Popular passages
Page 681 - Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Page 28 - I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.
Page 682 - ... that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Page 673 - And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
Page 675 - Here's to the United States," said the first speaker, " bounded on the north by British America, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, on the east by the Atlantic, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
Page 609 - ... unless the same shall be authorized by some law for some single object or work, to be distinctly specified therein, which law shall provide ways and means, exclusive of loans, for the payment of the interest of such debt or liability as it falls due, and 'also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt or liability within twenty years from the time of the contracting thereof...
Page 93 - The present convention shall be in force for the term of ten years from the date hereof; and further, until the end of twelve months after either of the high ' contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same...
Page 30 - What does he therefore, but resolves to give over toiling, and to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs; some divine of note and estimation that must be. To him he adheres, resigns the whole warehouse of his religion, with all the locks and keys, into his custody; and indeed makes the very person of that man his religion: esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.
Page 618 - And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Washington, on the...
Page 609 - The legislature shall not in any manner create any debt or debts, liability or liabilities, which shall singly, or in the aggregate, with any previous debts or liabilities, exceed the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, except in case of war, to repel invasion or suppress insurrection...